Combination-tool



(No Model.)

W. R. VAN VLIET. COMBINATION TOOL.

No. 411,079. Patented Sept. 17, 1889.

Suva mica UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WARREN R. VAN VLIET, OF EAST STROUDSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINATION-TOOL.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 411,079, dated September 17, 1889. Application filed September 26, 1883. Serial No. 286,419. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WARREN R. VAN VLIET, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Stroudsburg, in the county of Monroe and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combination- Tools, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements. in combination-tools comprising a vegetablecutter, cake-turner, beef-tenderer, corkscrew, hammer, tack-drawer, and lid-lifter; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a combination-tool embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the handle of the tool. Fig.3 is a detail view showing the corkscrew thrown down in position for use. Fig. 4 is a detail plan View of the end of the handle showing the hammer.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates the blade of the tool, preferably of steel, and of sufiicient width to turn cakes with, and having one sharp edge a and an opposite serrated or toothed edge a to break or cut the fibers of meat before cooking. The 1sglliarp edge a is used to cut or slice vegetaes. a is an opening in the blade by means of which the tool may be hung up. The said opening is made in the blade to avoid perforating, and consequently weakening, the handle B. The said handle consists of two unequal sections, the larger 0 of which has its inner tapered end provided with a long longitudinal slit or kerf 0, into which the blade is inserted and secured to the handle by rivets or otherwise, as shown.

D is a rectangular shoulder on one side of the handle at the point where its inner end begins to taper and extending through half the thickness of the handle.

The part of the section 0 below or outward from the shoulder D has its end curved and formed into one claw E of a double-clawed tack-drawer, the other claw E being on the lower end of the smaller handle-section F,

which is identical in shape with the part of the larger section outward from the shoulder D, against which and the adjoining side of the larger section it fits snugly. The section F is provided on its meeting side with an opening for the insertion of the pin f, standing from the meeting surface of the section 0, and on its outside with the stop-pin f Each section is provided inward from the claws E E with one-half a hammer-head G, the said halves being in contact when the sections 0 and F are attached to each other.

H is a corkscrew, having its outwardly-bent end 71. pivoted in the side of a recess 72/, in which the corkscrew lies when not in use. To use the same, the section F must be detached and the corkscrew turned outward at right angles to the section, when it rests against and is supported by the stop-pin 71 which is situated in the recess h to one side of the place where the corkscrew is pivoted and braces said corkscrew and serves to retain the corkscrew in the side of the recess by preventing any lateral movement of the end h when turning the corkscrew in the act of inserting it in a cork, as is most clearly illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

I is a sleeve fitting snugly on the handle and adapted to be slid down or outward, when the sections are attached together, till it rests against the stop-pin f.

The handle is preferably of malleable iron, and its uses as a hammer, tack-drawer, and lid-lifter are obvious. The sections become preferably slightly wider as they extend outward to cause the sleeve to bind them firmly together.

Having described my invention, I claim 1. The combination, with a suitable steel blade, of the handle B, composed of the section 0 and the claw E, and the section F, having a similar claw E and provided with a recess designed to receive a corkscrew, and attached to the section 0 by the pin f, that projects from the latter into an opening in the former, a corkscrew pivoted in said recess, and the sleeve holding the section F closely against the section 0, with its inner or upper end against the shoulder D, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with a suitable blade, of

the handle composed of the section C, provided with the shoulder D, claw E, pin f, and half of the hammer-head G, the section F, provided with the claw E, the opposite half of the hammer-head G, and having a recess in one of its sides and an opening for the pin f, a corkscrew pivoted in said recess, and the sleeve holding the sections closely together, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with a suitable blade and the larger handle-section C, secured to the blade and having the shoulder D, of the smaller handle-section F, provided with the recess h on its inner face and the stop-pin 7L2 in said recess, the corkscrew H, with its outwardly-bent end pivoted in the side or wall of said recess, and the sleeve I, holding said sections firmly together, substantially as specified.

4. The herein described combination-tool,

comprising the steel blade A, having the sharp edge a, the opposite serrated or toothed edge a, the larger handle-section 0, provided with the shoulder D, the pin f, the claw E, and one-half the hammer-head G, the smaller handle-section provided with the claw E, the opposite half of the hammer-head, the recess h, the stop-pin h2 in said recess, and an opening for the pin f, the corkscrew II, pivoted in the recess h, and the sleeve I, holding the two sections together, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

\VARREN R. VAN VLIET.

XVitnesses:

R. E. BRINK, W. ll. Voss. 

